NorwegianGirl posted a cute story about Axl Rose and Guns N’ Roses on MyGNRForum:
So I just got back home from a perfect trip to London and Gdansk. It was fun to watch Axl 3 times in a row because I could easily compare the different shows and it seemed like he just got more and more energy for each show!
In all the excitement, especially from friday night’s show in London (june 16th), I made a quick post about a wonderful experience from friday night’s show on my private FB page and also a GnR fanpage I’m a member of on FB. It got a huge respons and I also see the video is getting viral now, where Axl blows the kiss during “This I love”. Well, that was to me and my friend so I figured why not just share the story with you guys as I see many people wondering who it was for (and why) on different pages around the internet. I even see fans thinking it was for Sasha… oh well.:lol:
The night before the show me and my friend was thinking of making a banner, writing something funny to make him laugh. Then I came up with the idea about writing “Axl, blow us a kiss? <3", but didn't think he would do it though! Just thought it would make him smile. Now here's the funny part: we made the banner on the floor of the hostel we were staying at, and when we removed the banner the permanent marker had gone through the sheet we wrote on and it now says "Axl, blow us a kiss?" on the floor:rofl-lol:. Luckely, the people in the reception laughed at it too and said "don't worry".
We were queuing for 8 hours and got to the rail, at the end of the catwalk. Now, my friend is a bit shy so she was nervous about showing Axl the banner "what if we bother him during the song??" haha, but I kind of had the Duff attitude "no f*cks given", and she kind of joined me eventually. When "This I love" started I just felt it was the perfect song. If you watch the video on youtube, you will see him looking down and smiling as he reads our banner (after he sings "so if you ask me why, she wouldn't say goodbye" and is adjusting his rings or something(?). Then he continues singing. And my friend was like "OK, he's seen it, let's remove it now...let's not bother him", but I said "let's wait!". And as he stops singing, you'll see the "Axl blows the kiss" clip that went viral.
People around us were cheering for us as it was fans we'd been talking to before the show and they knew about the banner. And other fans behind us were tapping on our shoulders asking "what did it say to make him do that???" 😆
The sequrity though... right after Axl turned around and started walking away, one guy in a black shirt came and ripped the banner out of our hands like we did something illegal. It's funny, we weren't even holding the banner UP, just straight forward to not bother anyway or block people's view. We even asked the sequrity before the show, can we show the banner? they said yes! So I don't know who that guy was. But he took our banner away. After the show I asked to get it back as a memory, but they couldn't find it. I'm sure that guy threw it in the trash.<_<
On saturday, I saw sequrity jumping over crowds to remove banners and even in Gdansk this one guy literally jumped me to get a banner behind me (I was in the same spot as friday and saturday in London, infront of the catwalk at the rail). Even Axl shouted in the microphone then "HEY, stop, STOP" to the sequrity guy jumping me, they were just too rough. I get it, don't block people's view. But I didn't see any of that though. Just people wanting to show the guys some love.
And in Gdansk I also managed to shake hands with Slash after the show! But he said "no pictures". Right after we shook hands, he walked straight into the glass door of the hotel, face first, haha!! You can see the video on my instagram page, just search for "stinefiskaa". I feel bad, but I couldn't stop laughing after.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr5po6QWfhU
